Well thats a matter of debate. If Japanese fishing vessels are whaling in Australian Antartic waters and hosing green activists off with water cannons and if a Japanese naval vessel just happens to be nearby its just coincidence. Green peace didn’t think so, when they were ramming fishing boats, they got scared off and called for an Australian Navy ship to increase the pressure.
Well, Green **** would deserve that, but again, no, JMSDF has a commitment to stay within 1000 NM of Mainland Japan (read Honshu), except unusual efforts (read war on terror/Enduring Freedom).
I beg you to prove me the opposite.
That Australia isn’t that far behind Japan in capability. While japan has a great number of older cold war era ships, such as
Listen now. I don’t think you have any knowledge of industrial and intellectual work either in Japan or in Australia.
Japan is self reliant for its design of any kind of ship since before WWII (think since Holland-mod, in 1911). They have since a continuous and ininterrupted design on the board up to now – meaning for nearly 100 years.
They need no help for anyone.
Same thing for their flotting ships.
Now, Australia has never been designing its own subs ever. The have always bought a design abroad. Always.
Now, that Kockums had a bad time then and couldn’t built correctly the bow of the fisrt boat, and that Australian governement decided to give it a go via local industry and that worked is just proving that they are top notch for such (and more) implementation/realisation.
Now, the day the put a boat from spec to commissioning without third party involvement, we will say THEN they are on par with Japanese sub industry.
But I don’t think that is the purpose of the Australian government, as it is an expertise very demanding to access, and even more to keep.
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